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- Readings from the syllabus

• Gorman "RDA: Imminent Debacle"
  

  RDA_Imminent Debacle.pdf
  

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• Coyle and Hillman, "Resource Description and Access (RDA) Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century"
• Chapman, "RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century" (Full-text PDF not available / available in Simmons Library)

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- Websites

• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
• LC Working Group - Testing RDA
• U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Partners (including Northeastern Univ.)
• RDA Element Set from Description and Access Assignment in class (enter with: catalog-rda / rda)
• RDA toolkit
• the final report on FRBR
  

  frbr_2008.pdf
  

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• Planet Cataloging(web log)
• RDA survey
• Open RDA Registry
• RDA criticism
• Cataloging and metadata blogs

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- Notes

<How/Why did RDA appear?>
- Developed by JSC to replace AACR2 and published in the RDA Toolkit in June, 2010.
- Print-dominant environment --> digital environment
"a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world" -JSC RDA Prospectus
- To focus on the user convenience (FRBR's user task: Find, Identify, Select, Obtain)

<How is RDA similar/different from AACR2?>

- Built on foundations established by the AACR
- RDA is based on IFLA's FRBR and FRAD conceptual model.(focus on the relationships)
- RDA is a content standard (not a display standard nor an encoding standard)
- There are no separate chapters for each type of resources in RDA. (Section 1-4: attributes / Section 5-10: relationships)
- "main entry" --> preferred access point (further description in RDA Section 2)

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